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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 15
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Eliphaz sets forth the disquietude of wicked men—They do not believe they shall return out of darkness and be resurrected.
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Then</span> answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
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Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
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Should he reason with unprofitable talk?  or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
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Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
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For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
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Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
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<i>Art</i> thou the first man <i>that</i> was born?  or wast thou made before the hills?
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Hast thou heard the secret of God?  and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?
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What knowest thou, that we know not?  <i>what</i> understandest thou, which <i>is</i> not in us?
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With us <i>are</i> both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
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<i>Are</i> the consolations of God small with thee?  is there any secret thing with thee?
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Why doth thine heart carry thee away?  and what do thy eyes wink at,
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That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest <i>such</i> words go out of thy mouth?
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What <i>is</i> man, that he should be <sup>a</sup><a href="job/15/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ether 12: 37; D&C 38: 42.">clean</a>?  and <i>he which is</i> born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
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Behold, <sup>a</sup><a href="job/15/15a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE God.">he</a> putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
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How much more abominable and <sup>a</sup><a href="job/15/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Filthiness.">filthy</a> <i>is</i> man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
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I will shew thee, hear me; and that <i>which</i> I have seen I will declare;
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Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid <i>it:</i>
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Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
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The wicked man travaileth with pain all <i>his</i> days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
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A dreadful sound <i>is</i> in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
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He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
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He wandereth abroad for bread, <i>saying,</i> Where <i>is it? </i> he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
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Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
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For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
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He runneth upon him, <i>even</i> on <i>his</i> neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:
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Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and <sup>a</sup><a href="job/15/27a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR has grown fat on his loins.">maketh</a> collops of fat on <i>his</i> flanks.
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And he dwelleth in desolate cities, <i>and</i> in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become <sup>a</sup><a href="job/15/28a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE of ruins.">heaps</a>.
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He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.
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He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
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Let not him that is deceived trust in <sup>a</sup><a href="job/15/31a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">vanity</a>: for vanity shall be his recompence.
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It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
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He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
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For the congregation of <sup>a</sup><a href="job/15/34a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hypocrisy.">hypocrites</a> <i>shall be</i> desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of <sup>b</sup><a href="job/15/34b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Bribery.">bribery</a>.
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They conceive <sup>a</sup><a href="job/15/35a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 7: 14; Isa. 59: 4.">mischief</a>, and bring forth <sup>b</sup><a href="job/15/35b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Vanity.">vanity</a>, and their belly prepareth deceit.
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